Professional Negligence Quiz

What is professional negligence?

• A common occurrence in the healthcare industry

• An unavoidable mistake in the medical field

• An act or omission that causes injury due to failure to meet the standard of due care

• A deliberate act to harm a patient

What is one of the elements of professional negligence?

• Lack of duty on the part of the person charged

• Failure to meet the standard of due care

• Unforeseeable harm resulting from failure to meet standard

• Injury to the plaintiff without breach of standard

Which of the following is a specific example of negligence?

• Failure to report observations to attending physician

• Proper administration of medicine without a doctor prescription

• Use of correct medicine, concentration, route, and dose

• No defects in equipment that may result in injuring the patients

What is the result of the breach of standard in professional negligence?

• No legal consequences

• No injury to the plaintiff

• Injury to the plaintiff

• Injury to the defendant

What is an example of an error due to family assistance?

What is the consequence of the failure to exercise the degree of diligence in professional negligence?

• Improved patient outcome

• No harm to the patient

• No legal implications

• Harm to the patient

What is the result of the foreseeability of harm in professional negligence?

• No harm to the patient

• Harm to the patient

• No legal implications

• Improved patient outcome

What is the duty of the person charged in professional negligence?

• To breach the standard resulting in injury to the plaintiff

• To meet the standard of due care

• To avoid using due care under circumstances

• To foresee harm resulting from failure to meet standard

What is the commission of an act in professional negligence?

• A common occurrence in the healthcare industry

• An unavoidable mistake in the medical field

• An act that a reasonably person in the same or similar circumstance would not do

• An act that a reasonably person in the same or similar circumstance would do

What is the omission of an act in professional negligence?

• An act that a reasonably person in the same or similar circumstance would do

• An act that a reasonably person in the same or similar circumstance would not do

• An unavoidable mistake in the medical field

• A common occurrence in the healthcare industry